I enjoyed the keynote address. Especially the idea of seeing the internet as being in the adolecent stage: a place where people try to be noticed and how social networking sites really do not promote deep thought and discussion between people but instead are really just people "grunting" at each other. Dr. Tim Tyson challegened us as educators to use these tools to teach students how to have meaningful dialogue and solve real life problems. Here is the link to screencasts of the keynote address: http://drtimtyson.com/clients/VSTE/.
I enjoyed the keynote address. Especially the idea of seeing the internet as being in the adolecent stage: a place where people try to be noticed and how social networking sites really do not promote deep thought and discussion between people but instead are really just people "grunting" at each other. Dr. Tim Tyson challegened us as educators to use these tools to teach students how to have meaningful dialogue and solve real life problems. Here is the link to screencasts of the keynote address: http://drtimtyson.com/clients/VSTE/.